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Today, Pedro and Stacey go on a deep existential dive into what most people experience in their life……….an awakening.  Stacey shares her early life, talking about how she disappointed her mom, made her way into college, only to graduate and start her life. She shares how she lived very well in her corporate position until liberation from marriage took her into raising her son on her own.  After 25 years of climbing a corporate ladder, Stacey gave up a prestigious Senior Vice President position with a national firm to purchase a start-up franchise. 16 years later she successfully sold her franchise business and now dedicates her time to helping entrepreneurs who want to pursue a similar path to career success and life happiness. 

For many years, the Navy Seals were a mystery to many. In modern age of technology and vast access to information, we're now able to put faces to some of the brave men and women who have served our country, served it well, and continue to serve it well after "retirement" from the Seal Teams.

In this episode you will be educated on how adversity can impact your life. Ultimately, we decide how we live by the standards which are placed on everyone. Oftentimes as humans, we like to reach into the mindset that we haven't accomplished enough. This can be obtained by surrounding ourselves with knowledgeable resources found in literature, educated professionals, and factual sources.

Welcome to Episode 100 of the Chronicles of a Modern Beast. It’s been a process of 2 years of consistency, grit, reinvention, determination, and battling imposter syndrome along the way.  It’s also been filled huge breakthroughs, successes, and triumphs.  The lessons learned were earned, and the growth experienced was necessary in order to build credibility, despite being pulled in different directions by distractions. 

There are those who are self-taught, self-educated, and ultimately self-liberated. The box we’ve been given to create our lives in doesn’t work for everyone. There’s a certain freedom that exists when you discover your true superpowers, focus your efforts on results, doing a great job, sticking to your core values, and maintaining the highest level of ethics in life and business. 

The difference between regular people and above average people is a combination of a few things: grit, determination, consistency, tenacity, and the foolish belief that everything is possible. But one thing validates entrepreneurs is when they combine those elements with hard work and genius. Today, you’ll get a chance to meet one of these people. 

If you want to be like the 1%, you have to abandon the 99%. How you live, how you work, and how you communicate are the key elements to creating a whole new world. 

The best-made plans are always apt to change whether we want them to or not. Sometimes we start our lives out of school with a mission to have a predictable and perfect life, only to come up short. Twists and turns are inevitable, but we always end up where we’re supposed to be, following a path we couldn’t have predicted better for ourselves. 

A part of life is experiencing it.  The lessons.  The mistakes. The heartache.  The successes. The wins.  As we grow, we learn to control what we can and let go of the things that we can’t. After all, we’re not completely in control, even though we like to think so.  But here’s the beauty.  If we’re fortunate and wise enough to seek out counsel, friendship, and partnerships with those who have done more and seen more than we have, we’ll most likely find a friend for life.  Someone who will serve as a mentor, coach, and sage willing to share their journey filled with lessons and best practices to follow for the future.

Pedro and Dr. Sharon jump into the essence that’s affecting American Society and certain parts of the world on today’s episode.  They discuss mindsets we’re raised with, habits we create as a result of living in certain environments, and the challenges we face to make our way into a better life.  Dr. Sharon skillfully outlines how everything in our lives fits together like a puzzle. She shares the 3 contributing factors that lead to burnout and how to reverse their effects on us.  Bring your notepads and pens and get ready for a big bonus at the end that will help you in your journey as you avoid burnout. 

The beautiful thing about life is you never know where it’s going to take you.  A few things are for sure; you’re going to have struggles and you’re going to have wins.  You’re going to laugh, cry, and have reasons to celebrate.  You’ll be tested and tried and throughout the process, you will continue to grow into whom you are intended to be. Today’s guest is someone who is going to take you on a journey that will play out like a movie in your head in real time.

“When I stopped putting all the value in my job and the money I made, and all that stuff, it allowed me to start thinking about what do I really want to do?  What am I  passionate about and that’s when my business, although it wasn’t a business then, that’s when my business, “Not Your Average Joe” was born.  And I really started talking to people on the internet about my minimalism journey.